Re: Lost tiara of Duchess of Argyll returned to owner after 6 years Archived Message
Posted by SarahN on June 18, 2012, 9:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Lost tiara of Duchess of Argyll returned to owner after 6 years "
Yes, it's one thing to lose a phone or an earring, but a tiara - !! I sure as heck hope they are "rethinking their procedures". --Previous Message-- : : I would suggest that very few tiaras are : lost at the airport, and that a few simple : inquiries would have ascertained the owner. : : Given that, the airport is in grave : dereliction of even the most basic duty to : locate the owner of what would obviously : have been a valuable item, not the sort of : thing to go unnoticed by its owner. : : --Previous Message-- : Amazing, how carlessly they handle their : customer's luggage! : Here is another article about it. They have : another pic of the Duchess, with another : tiara. : : : : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160926/Airport-finds-Duchesss-100-000-jewellery--sells-fraction-value-didnt-tell-police.html#ixzz1yAKXe9HQ : : --Previous Message-- : Airport sells off Duchess's lost diamond : tiara : : : : The Duchess of Argyll, who lost five pieces : of jewellery including a diamond tiara at : Glasgow Airport, spotted one of them in an : auction catalogue after BAA sold it off, it : was reported. : : The Duchess lost a Victorian headpiece and a : Cartier brooch along with three other pieces : worth a total of £100,000 in 2006. The items : went missing as she returned to Clan : Campbell's ancestral home, Inveraray Castle. : : Despite reporting the loss to the police and : informing the Art Loss Register (ALR), they : could not be traced until the Duchess, 68, : saw her missing brooch in a catalogue for : Scottish auction house Lyon and Turnbull, : the Independent reported. : : After the ALR investigated, it emerged the : airport's owner, BAA, had found the : jewellery just months after it went missing : and sold it to a diamond merchant for less : than £5,000. The proceeds were given to : charity. : : Christopher Marinello, ALR lawyer, said: : "Apparently, the airport found the : jewels or they were turned in to 'lost and : found' by someone. : : "The question remains: what did they do : to help find the owner? They didn't call the : police even though the airport police had a : record of the theft. They didn't call ALR. : The only thing they did was sell them." : : BAA has reportedly offered to reimburse the : trader to have the tiara, brooch and a pearl : necklace returned but an emerald ring and : pearl earrings are still missing. : : "I'm absolutely amazed. I thought that : after six years I'd lost them forever," : the Duchess said. "The tiara was a : Victorian family one and the necklace was : given to me for my 21st birthday. So : everything was very special." : : A BAA spokesman said the authority would be : reviewing its procedures. : : Gavin Strang, L&T director, said he was : "delighted" that the jewellery was : being returned to its "rightful : owner". : : : : : : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9338449/Airport-sells-off-Duchesss-lost-diamond-tiara.html : : : : :
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